Anaheim (California) July 22 (IANS) Indian shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap H.S. Prannoy and the men s doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy entered to the semi-finals of the US Open Grand Prix here.
Kashyap on Friday ended the hopes of his compatriot Sameer Verma with a 21-13 21-16 victory in 40 minutes.
Kashyap will meet South Korea s Kwang Hee Heo in the semi-final. Kwang defeated Japan s Koki Watanabe 21-16 16-21 21-9.
It will be world No.59 Kashyap s first encounter against Kwang.
Second seed Prannoy got the better of Japanese eighth seed Kanta Tsuneyama in a 10-21 21-15 21-18 triumph in an hour.
In the next round world No.23 Prannoy s opponent will be Vietnamese 15th seed Tien Minh Nguyen who brushed aside South Korean 10th seed Jeon Hyeok Jin 21-15 21-15.
Prannoy and World No.66 Nguyen have faced once -- in 2012 Asia Championships where the Vietnamese had won.
The third seeded men s doubles pair of Manu-Sumeeth moved past Japanese seventh seeds Hiroki Okamura and Masayuki Onodera 21-18 22-20 in 43 minutes.
Manu-Sumeeth will face a big task in the semi-final as they will be up againt Chinese Taipei s top-seeded combine of Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han.
Lu-Yang crushed Vietnamese pair of Tuan Duc Do and Hong Nam Pham 21-13 21-18 in 31 minutes.
--IANS
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